In this brief, the problem of inventory control in systems with perishable goods is addressed
from the control-theoretic perspective. In the analyzed setting, the deteriorating stock used to …

Throughout the last decades, collaborative schemes, under an amalgam of different
acronyms (ECR, CPFR, VMR, etc.), have been developed to mitigate the problematic …

The emergence of real-time supply chain visibility technologies has raised challenges for
organisations in developing the required management capabilities required to exploit …

Bullwhip effect represents the amplification and distortion of demand variability as moving
upstream in a supply chain, causing excessive inventories, insufficient capacities and high …

Today's automakers are under an enormous price and cost pressure arising from both
increasing competition and complexity of operations. One way to deal with this challenge is …

This paper analyses the impact on supply chain performance of adopting different strategies
to implement partial information sharing among heterogeneous retailers. Supply chains are …

Information sharing has been shown previously in the literature to be effective in reducing
the magnitude of the bullwhip effect. Most of these studies have focused on a particular …

Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) has become a widely used tool for supply chain
performance improvement. However, not all VMI implementations are successful. Therefore …

Many of the existing methods and models of supply chain planning and control consider
only one supply chain structure and assume it's more or less static in nature. In practice …

Firms often outsource the development and acquisition of logistics information systems (LIS)
needed to improve logistics processes. Managers tasked with such outsourcing decisions …